Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 1057: Chapter 1057: So Far Away, Yet Right Before My Eyes

"Looking for that Void Flow Thunder Force practitioner, aren’t you?"

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder scratched his head, pulling out a nail full of muck.

Venerate Xinnie’s eyelid twitched.

Stepping back slightly, he said, "The Heavenly Mechanism Elder truly has divine skills in calculation."

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder grinned, revealing a gap where his front tooth was missing, and said:

"Do I even need to calculate?"

"You’ve been searching the Taicang State for Void Flow Thunder Force practitioners, even a three-year-old knows about it."

Venerate Xinnie showed a trace of embarrassment: "That practitioner is elusive."

"Finding him is really difficult."

"Today, I shamelessly ask you to please calculate his whereabouts."

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder shook his head and said, "What if I don’t help?"

Venerate Xinnie’s gaze deepened, and with a faint smile, said:

"Since you claim to know everything under the heavens."

"You should know I would come to find you."

"Yet you stayed here, waiting for me intentionally."

"Just tell me what you want to help, don’t hesitate."

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder chuckled.

He did not deny it.

With his ability to intercept the heavenly mechanism, when he doesn’t want to be found, no one can find him.

Not hiding, he pointed to the ancient thousand-year city ahead and said:

"I want to go inside once."

"I need Thunderbolt Origin for protection."

"Surely you wouldn’t be stingy, right?"

Thunderbolt Origin?

Venerate Xinnie’s complexion changed slightly and he said sternly, "Isn’t your appetite too big?"

"This is something the Young Emperor rewarded me with, to give me a chance to overcome the Heavenly Person Decline."

"How can I give it to you?"

He expected the Heavenly Mechanism Elder wouldn’t ask for a small thing.

But unexpectedly, he directly asked for the most precious thing on him.

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder chuckled:

"You think fortune-telling is easy for me?"

"That’s intercepting the heavenly mechanism, opposing the Heavenly Dao, and will surely suffer retribution."

"Moreover, helping you find an innocent person is aiding a tyrant."

"The consequences of heavenly retribution will be even more severe."

"If it weren’t for needing to see the Misfortune Sage to confirm something, even if you gave me ten Thunderbolt Origins, I wouldn’t help you."

This is also why Venerate Xinnie has never been able to find the Heavenly Mechanism Elder.

Initially, the Heavenly Mechanism Elder was not willing to help him either.

The Young Emperor, having practiced Void Flow Thunder Force himself, wouldn’t allow others to practice and intended to eradicate all practitioners.

How domineering is that?

Helping them is akin to aiding a tyrant, and would not be tolerated by the Heavenly Dao.

But he had to go to that dangerous place.

And Thunderbolt and fire origin are among the few things that can withstand these black smoke and Venerate’s remains.

So, he made an exception and allowed Venerate Xinnie to find him.

Venerate Xinnie frowned in contemplation.

He was absolutely unwilling to hand over the Thunderbolt Origin.

However, time waits for no one.

The Young Emperor had given him only two months left.

If he couldn’t find it, the Young Emperor would surely cross realms to kill him.

Clenching his teeth, he pulled out a small Thunderbolt Seal and said: "Here you go!"

"You must find this person for me!"

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder rolled his sleeve, accepted the Thunderbolt Origin.

A smile appeared on his dirty face: "Don’t worry, there aren’t many people in Taicang State that I can’t find."

He immediately closed his eyes, and calculated with his fingers.

A thread of nearly imperceptible mysterious aura surged from the Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s body and entered the sky.

Venerate Xinnie looked up.

His pupils constricted to find that the boundless sky had cracked open!

The fissure rapidly expanded, soon forming a gigantic eye across the sky.

An orb like a moon turned lightly.

It seemed to be the eye of the heavens, overlooking Taicang State.

Such a miraculous scene made Venerate Xinnie secretly shiver.

What is the true identity of this Heavenly Mechanism Elder?

A few breaths later.

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder opened his eyes, with a hint of strangeness flashing.

Venerate Xinnie asked quizzically: "Can’t find him?"

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder shook his head, composed: "Found him."

"The strange thing is, there’s a heavenly mechanism obscuring him, I can’t see his appearance."

"And, it’s two different heavenly mechanisms."

"Such a peculiar person in Taicang State, strange indeed."

He stroked his beard, showing traces of astonishment.

"Venerate Xinnie, I advise you and your Young Emperor to give up."

"I’ve seen people obscured by the heavenly mechanism, but two mechanisms covering one is very rare."

"He’s surrounded by extraordinary people or things."

"It’s better not to provoke them anymore."

Venerate Xinnie frowned incessantly.

Someone obscured by the heavenly mechanism?

He said sternly: "What if I insist on killing him?"

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder gazed at the sky, murmured:

"Heaven has unpredictable storms, and man has unpredictable fortunes."

"Just pray your own fortune can withstand the backlash of those two heavenly mechanisms."

Venerate Xinnie’s eyes flickered.

He didn’t believe in such mysterious and intangible things.

The Martial Path Realm relies on strength, not fortune!

"Then tell me his identity."

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder nodded and said: "Alright."

"I can’t see his appearance, can’t glean his name, nor confirm his whereabouts."

Venerate Xinnie’s face turned cold: "Then aren’t you spouting nonsense?"

Knowing nothing is worse than the sect list he holds.

The Heavenly Mechanism Elder’s eyes flashed with a keen light and said:

"I don’t know, but you do."

"He’s far away yet close at hand."

And then.

Holding the Thunderbolt Origin, he slapped the green ox’s hindquarters and stepped into the boundless black smoke.

Venerate Xinnie’s heart trembled, his old eyes shrank:

"I know his name?"

"Is he someone by my side?"

"Impossible, everyone by my side has been checked either openly or covertly."

"No one could’ve been overlooked."

He closed his eyes and like a carousel, recalled all his experiences since entering Taicang State.

One by one, those he met floated by in his mind.

Suddenly.

His mind halted at the end of the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road.

His eyes abruptly opened, he let out a deep low call:

"Jiang Fan!"

"My disciple!"

"I know the name, and he’s near and close at hand!"

"What’s more coincidental is, on that day he was completely exhausted, and I didn’t detect him!"

"Also, on that day, someone on the Heavenly Ascending Ancient Road used Void Flow Fire Force!"

This disciple, forgotten in the corner, hadn’t even crossed his mind again.

Filled with immense suspicion!

No!

It must be him!

Venerate Xinnie laughed in anger, his eyes swirled with murderous intent:

"No wonder that day he refused to worship under me."

"Turns out, he feared being by my side and revealing the Void Flow Thunder Force!"

"Ha ha!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Suddenly!

He stomped on the ground.

Half a mountain exploded on the spot!

His old face was filled with intense anger:

"He actually fooled me right to my face!"

"Even made me accept him as my disciple!"

"You deserve a thousand deaths!"

Being toyed with like a monkey by someone he tirelessly sought.

This completely infuriated Venerate Xinnie!

With boundless rage, his gaze turned to the direction of the continent.

"Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion, Jiang Fan, right?"

"Your end is here!"